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the southern Britons were extirpated, those who inhabited 
the different northern regions of modern Scotland were able 
to preserve their independence, and were found by Agricola 
under the name of Caledonians, a people who were ofa florid 
complexion, and whose other features indicated a German 
extraction. 
** The Flint knives, daggers, arrow heads, spear heads, 
stone hammers, and chisels, which have been found in 
Treland, in great quantities, are so exactly similar in formand 
character to those found in Funen, in Denmark, and figured 
and published by the Northern Antiquarian Society, that 
those figures on their plates might be taken as correct repre- 
sentations of our Irish articles. A very remarkable instance 
is to be found in a flint dagger in our own Museum, which 
I now lay before the Academy, with the Danish plate, Den- 
mark was the country of the Cimbri, the descendants of 
the Caledonians: the Welsh have ever, and still call them- 
selves by that name. The places in that part of Scotland, of 
which the Picts last retained possession before their extir- 
pation by the Scotch from Ireland, still abound in Welsh 
denominations, and seem to me to offer unquestionable tes- 
timony, when all these circumstances are taken together 
with the occurrence of similar monuments in all the British 
islands, and in Denmark, that they are of the Belgie or 
Firbolg people ; and the Belge and Cimbri were people of 
the same primitive northern race, using stone weapons and 
tools; perhaps the first inhabitants of these countries. 
‘* T now proceed to say a few words on the name of the hill 
Knock Mary, and its adjoining neighbour, Knockmaroon. 
*“* These names being Celtic Irish, and in the language of 
the nation which succeeded the people who constructed these 
monuments, could have no reference to the individuals 
buried, but must have been given to the things themselves, 
and consequently must have been of a generic character, 
and applicable generally. The Celtic Irish were the people 
